{"id":233,"date":"2008-04-16T04:23:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T12:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=233"},"modified":"2008-04-15T14:23:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T22:23:18","slug":"looking-ahead-half-and-full-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/looking-ahead-half-and-full-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Ahead – Half and Full Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking ahead this week <\/a>I’m doing two pretty major things. I’m not sure what order they will happen exactly but I think I’m going to 1) Register <\/a>for the 27th Annual Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon on Friday and then 2) race the Earth Day Half Marathon on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Twin Cities<\/a> tends to fill up within a month and they are planning on that happening even though they are expanding the field to 11,000 entrants. Last year the race had just over 7,000 finishers. The course runs from downtown Minneapolis making a big circle around Minneapolis before finishing at the State Capitol Building in St Paul. Registration open at 12:01 am Friday morning!<\/p>\n

This date has been marked on my calendar for awhile now and I actually selected this weekend’s Half-Marathon with the fall marathon in mind. I can race Saturday and will have several weeks of “down time” before beginning a new, yet to be determined, training program.<\/p>\n

So for this weekend’s half-marathon I’m venturing out to do the Earth Day Half-Marathon<\/a>. It is the USATF-MN<\/a> Half-Marathon Championship race, which I didn’t know when I signed up. Even though I don’t think our team is going to have enough people to field a team because of Boston it will still be fun. The race was forced to make some last minute course adjustments due to a closed bridge<\/a> in the city. I think everyone is a little skittish since the I-35W bridge collapse<\/a> so they closed the bridge before it got worse. This affects the race because the main detour around the know closed bridge is on the course. It should be a good race and I’m excited to see the fruits of all my hard work<\/a>! Check back on Monday or Tuesday to see how it went!<\/p>\n

[tags] Marathon, Half-Marathon, Twin Cities, Earth Day [\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking ahead this week I’m doing two pretty major things. I’m not sure what order they will happen exactly but I think I’m going to 1) Register for the 27th Annual Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon on Friday and then 2) race the Earth Day Half Marathon on Saturday. 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